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Welcome to the Club
INTERNATIONAL MODELING & TALENT ASSOCIATION
ur fans demanded it, and
Pageantry delivered it. It’s
here—our ﬁrst major update to Club
Pageantry in almost 7 years! Yes,
PAGEANTRY our Club Pageantry members still
CLUB receive special offers on subscrip-
tions, member-only merchandise
discounts from the Pageantry Mall,
personalized daily birthday greetings, and much more.
Are you sitting down? Pageantry is extremely honored to an-
nounce the exclusive Winner’s Circle showcase. Yes, you can
now feature yourself and your glamour lifestyle accomplishments
within your industry leading Pageantry magazine. Our founders
started the ﬁrst international competitions for young ladies in
1962, so we understand how important each winning moment is
to you. It could be that ﬁrst state or national crown or that ﬁrst
modeling contract. It may not even be a ﬁrst for you.
As a member of Club Pageantry’s Winner’s Circle, we are
happy to showcase your accomplishments to the world in both
Pageantry newsstand as well as our digital sister magazine,
PageantryDigital. That’s right, we can showcase you to the entire
Glamour Lifestyle industry, in both Pageantry magazine and
PageantryDigital magazine. Your very own Winner’s Circle show-
case page... print and digital. Pageantry... Celebrating the Glam-
our Lifestyle (it even says so on our glamorous covers). □
IMTA Goes Improv
C ontinuing the expansion of their international brand across all
entertainment spectrums, IMTA recently announced the ad-
dition of its newest competition. In an industry ﬁrst, Improv will be
added to the standard repertoire of Modeling, Acting, Dance, and
the newer Singer-Songwriter competitions. The exciting Improv
competition, limited to speciﬁc age divisions, takes place on stage
in an open-set competition before a panel of judges. During line-
up, contestants are provided a brief scenario of a character (per-
son), a place, and an object (thing); IMTA Improv contestants will
have 30 seconds to perform an improvised monologue based on
the three pieces of information. Judging is on creativity, the con-
testant’s ability to incorporate all three elements into their mono-
logue, and talent for vocal and physical expression. □
MISS TEEN USA
Arrest made in Miss Teen USA Cassidy
Wolf ‘Sextortion’ case
PAGEANTRY & PROMTIME
Dresses, Dresses, Everywhere Dresses
T he annual preview of the Pageantry &
PromTime Fashion Showcase is coming
soon. Don’t miss the hottest and most fash-
ion forward gowns coming to boutiques near
you as featured in the world’s largest on-site
photo shoot for prom, pageant, and home-
coming fashions. Showcasing the top de-
signers in the industry this is deﬁnitely a
fashion must-see. To check out the Pageantry & PromTime 2014
Fasion Showcase preview, look for the special fashion section
within the Winter 2013 edition of PageantryDigital. □
PAGEANTRY TALENT & ENTERTAINMENT SERVICES
Who you gonna call?
P ageantry CEO Carl Dunn has been in
high demand as the Glamour Lifestyle
industry expert. Recently, Mr. Dunn has been
a featured guest on ABC’s “Good Morning
America” and on National Public Radio. To
catch up on his latest views, please visit the
Newsline section the Pageantrymagazine.com website.
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irectly preceding our interview with Miss Teen USA Cassidy
Wolf, authorities made the case against her cyberstalker.
Great news for everyone!
A college student was arrested Thursday for allegedly hijacking
the webcams of young women—among them reigning Miss Teen
USA Cassidy Wolf—taking nude images, then blackmailing his
victims to send him more explicit material or else be exposed.
Jared James Abrahams, a 19-year-old computer science stu-
dent from Temecula, California, surrendered on Thursday to the
FBI on federal extortion charges, the agency announced. Author-
ities say he victimized young women surreptitiously, by taking
control of their computers then photographing them as they
changed out of their clothes.
When he admitted what he’d done in June, Abrahams said he
had 30 to 40 “slave computers”—or other people’s electronic de-
vices he controlled—and has had as many as 150 total, accord-
ing to a criminal complaint.
His arrest came six months after a teenager identiﬁed in court
documents as C.W. alerted authorities. She has since publicly
identiﬁed herself as Cassidy Wolf, the recently crowned Miss Teen
USA [see page 72]. She touted news reports of her alleged tor-
menter’s arrest on her Twitter feed. □